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Really enjoy her view on todays issues on social problems education gender issues
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Id reccomend reading this book in chunks not straight through
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If paglia doesnt always get it right shame on her
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This collection hasn’t aged a day—perhaps because the social and intellectual problems paglia diagnosed 20 years ago are still with us the exhaustion of the leftright paradigm which is no longer capable of interpreting anything in this age of mass media and globalization the tunnel vision of academic feminists on sexual assault the tunnel vision of mainstream feminists on abortion the fuzzy utopianism of social welfare planners the corruption of american universities which are larded up with more money than a new york hedge fund but hide that fact with hollow gestures of chic leftism the sterility of contemporary cultural criticism the totalitarian tactics of gay rights activists and the massive ignorance of science and world religions
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In “rape and modern sex war” she critiques the assumption that sex is merely socially constructed and therefore thoroughly controllable by language
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But the centerpiece of the collection is “junk bonds and corporate raiders” her 80 page essay on the state of humanities scholarship
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The first half is a takedown of two books on gay studies
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To be fair i think she goes overboard